grammar school, secondary school, high school; institution of higher education or learning, college, university, multiversity, Both Derog. phrontistery or phron-tisterion; private school, boarding school, academy, seminary; kindergarten, nursery school, day-care center; (all within a school) department, division, faculty, area, discipline, field.
2. style, fashion, manner, tone, character, stamp; method, system, mode; (used collectively) followers, disciples, pupils, students, apostles, protdgds; adherents, proponents, devotees, votaries, admirers; imitators, copiers, epigones, emulators; successors, heirs, perpetuators.
3. belief, creed, credo, dogma, doctrine, ism; thought, view, opinion, position; sect, denomination, persuasion, faction, party, class, communion, fellowship.
-adj. 4. educational, instructive, informative, didactic; academic, academical, scholastic, instructional, pedagogic, pedagogical.
-v. 5. teach, instruct, tutor, inform, enlighten, edify; train, coach, break in, prepare, ready, prime; exercise, practice, drill, discipline; nurture, foster, nourish, breed, rear, bring up, cultivate, educate, develop, broaden, civilize, humanize; inculcate, instill, infuse, indoctrinate; govern, direct, guide; mold, shape, form; preach, lecture, moralize. schoolbook, n. textbook, text, book, manual, handbook; abecedarium, primer, hornbook, first reader, reader, copybook, grammar or grammar book. schooling, n. education, formal education, book learning, teaching, instruction, tuition, tutelage, tutorship; direction, guidance, nurture, breeding, development; preparation, training, discipline, exercise, practice; inculcation, instillment, indoctrination, initiation, introduction; enlightenment, edification, culture, cultivation, refinement. science, n. 1. body of knowledge, body of facts or information, body of laws or principles, body of truths or verities or realities, pantology; discipline, area of study, academic area, area, field, subject; sphere, domain, realm, world; branch, specialization, specialty.
2. physical science, technology, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, geography; social science, sociology, psychology, economics.
3. scholarship, academics, academic pursuit, learning, erudition, philosophy; research, experimentation, trial and error, investigation, discovery.
4. skill, proficiency, expertise, expertness, mastery; adeptness, aptness, finesse; address, application, efficiency; facility, dexterity, deftness; sophistication, know-how, savoir-faire. scientific, adj. 1. physical, natural, technological, technical, sciential, Rare, philosophical.
2. scholarly, academic, learned, erudite, punditic, scientistic.
3. systematic, systematical, orderly, ordered, regular, regulated, controlled; methodical, thorough, painstaking, meticulous; exact, precise, mathematical, math-ematic; experimental, empirical, observable, measurable, provable, verifiable, quantitative. scintilla, n. spark, gleam, glimmer; trace, touch, hint, trifle, tinge, suggestion, suspicion, soupcon, tincture, Archaic, spice, shadow; modicum, iota, bit, mite, speck, smidgen, Inf. smitch; molecule, atom, jot, whit, tittle, straw, pin; dot, point, dab, fleck; particle, moit, mote; fraction, hair, shaving, paring, sliver, shive, splinter, fragment, scrap, snip; morsel, crumb, grain, granule; drop, droplet, dash. scintillate, v. spark, flare, flash; gleam, glare, effulge, fulgurate, coruscate; flame, blaze, burn, conflagrate; streak, stream, beam; glitter, glimmer, glisten,